Idra Novey famous quotes

I have a deep love for the art of translation, and I couldn't find a novel that captured the fascinating, reckless adventure of it as I'd experienced it, or portrayed translators as the passionate risk-takers that so many of the translators I know are. So I wrote the book I couldn't find.
-- Idra Novey

#Art #Book #Adventure

A single conversation can change things.
-- Idra Novey

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I think we think that American books are funny or they're serious literature. But humor is subversive. When you add an element of absurdism, you can get away with more, work in dark, daring questions you might not have written toward otherwise.
-- Idra Novey

#Book #Dark #Thinking

I've never translated more than one book by any author. But I'm fascinated by translators who have, like Richard Zenith, who's translated so much of Fernando Pessoa's work. I get restless for a new kind of influence. The books I've translated are books I want to learn from as a writer, to be intoxicated by. And translation is an act of writing in itself. It's an act of recreation - of a writer's cadence and tone and everything that distinguishes the voice in the book.
-- Idra Novey

#Book #Writing #Kind

It's the best motivation to have a particular beloved reader in mind! Because you feel this urgency that you really want somebody you care about to be able to experience a sentence the way you experienced it in another language.
-- Idra Novey

#Motivation #Mind #Care

What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator.
-- Idra Novey

#Book #Thinking #Translators

I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else into mine.
-- Idra Novey

#Language #Impulse #Translate

It would be great if I woke up tomorrow and could speak Persian. Wouldn't you love to wake and have a language in your mind that wasn't there the night before?
-- Idra Novey

#Night #Mind #Tomorrow

Humor is serious work. But it keeps everybody at the table.
-- Idra Novey

#Serious

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.

As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.

Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it. Byron Brown's presentation is useful for any individual who wishes to be free from the inner suffering and coercion of this ancient foe of our humanity, but it is specifically directed to those interested and engaged in the inner journey toward realization and enlightenment.

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

(George Bush) betrayed this country! He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place!

Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.